300 Challenge – Day 1

by Mike Haydon on April 3, 2009

First day:

I completed the workout in 39 minutes 24 seconds. The hardest exercise for me was the pullups. Because I’ve been hitting the (home) gym a lot lately, I’ve recently grown to 105 kg (230 lbs) and so I’m still not used to my body weight. They also took the longest because I could only do a few before being forced to stop. I definitely felt the after effect of the deadlifts when I did the box jumps. It was weird. The easiest exercise by far was the dumbell clean & press. The weight on that was too light, even for the end of the workout. But that’s the weight I’ve chosen, so I’ll stick with it for the rest of the week. The floor wipers really hurt too.

I was completely drained after the workout and could barely move for about half an hour. I had done as many reps as I could of each exercise, then rested til I could just face continuing, kept going until I could do no more, rested, etc. After the deadlifts, I was seriously out of breath, but got that under control reasonably quickly.

Verdict – great workout (even though it’s meant to be a strength/fitness test), but left me really hungry. Not long after I finished, my wife came home with some roast chickens, so I polished off one of those.

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